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I don’t think I’d be speaking out of turn by saying that everyone has fears, whether you’re able to articulate them or not. There’s nothing wrong with fear. In fact, there are some who consider a true lack of fear to be a neurological disorder. The emotion, the reaction, is hardwired. It’s a survival tool
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When I moved into the greater Greenwood area around nine years ago, I fell in love. In fact, this was the subject of a post on this very page just over two years ago. I like neighborhoods. I fell they are what defines a city. But neighborhoods change. It’s the nature of the world that
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The origin of Cobalt City as a literary entity is a strange one. Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe all mythical places start small, a seed unaware of the tree that sleeps, coiled inside. The first Cobalt City tale was a short story, maybe 8,000 words or so. On a challenge, i wrote the first novel–Cobalt
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I suppose if I had an agent or publicist or manager of some sort, they would advise me against this post. It is, as an office-drone friend of mine calls it, something of a “career limiting maneuver.” It’s one thing to be political, but to be openly, passionately political, is to risk alienating readers. But
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If you managed to miss the first half of this list, or even why this list exists in the first place, here is where you’ll find it. Now, let’s cut to the chase. The other half of the list. Masque of the Red Death (1964) — Roger Corman There were a slew of movies based
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It’s no mystery to anyone who really knows me that I’m a horror movie geek. It’s not just that I enjoy horror movies. I know a lot of people who like horror movies whose eyes glaze over when I start talking about favorite films and why they’re favorite films. And that’s fine. Everyone is free
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Now available for your Kindle! The darkness is where stars shine their brightest. It’s where we find what sustains us, what keeps us pushing on. Like when: A young man learns his family’s darkest secret from a faded circus clown. Shoemaker elves pit Old World craftsmanship against New World cunning. The last soldier of the
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If you had told me ten years ago that “Ukulele Girls” would be a thing, I would have mentally filed your opinions in the category reserved for Y2K believers and Holocaust deniers. But mysteriously, the ukulele has become standard issue for hipster girls with clunky glasses, vintage style dresses, and awkwardly overwrought adorkableness. Which, honestly,
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Some wars are silent. Not secret, mind you. They happen right out there in front of you. They’re happening all around, even now. You might be fighting one now and not even know it. They are uprisings that happen gradually, stretched out over a period of years. Soft wars. Culture wars that leave the society
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The title of this post is somewhat of a misnomer in that there is no actual game film to speak of. Though I sincerely wish there was as I might then be able to identify the truck that ran me down. Who am I kidding? We all know what truck that was. A truck by
Tales from the Ragged Edge 